Browser Federation

Even within a single company, applications may exist on different platforms, in separate departmental security domains, in legacy databases derived from prior acquisitions, or in separate organisations due to outsourcing. Web services increase this challenge.

PingFederate is the industry-leading federated identity server for enabling Single Sign-On to online services for employees, customers and business partners.

This solution:

• Integrates applications and users across partner, supplier and customer organisations. Provides best of breed SAML 2.0 functionality for federated SSO, SLO and attribute exchange.
• Uses case driven configuration guides to support administrators step by step through the system, and federated identity connection setup.
• Is easy to install, integrate and scale.
• Reduces complexity, cost, and time-to-production through effortless configuration tools and the broadest range of turn-key integration kits.
• Is a stand-alone federation server that will integrate and coexist with home-grown and commercial Identity Management deployments.
• Enables organisations to federate applications residing in multiple security domains, effectively allowing you to manage all of your partner trust relationships and connections from a single location.
• Reduces portal integration cost and complexity by leveraging SAML for standards-based Web SSO.
• Eliminates redundant user logons.

CA SiteMinder® helps organisations recognise the benefits of connecting business applications and users across domains without sacrificing security or increasing risk. With this solution effective coordination and mass integration between trading partners is now achievable and affordable.

Due to the introduction of general purpose and industry specific standards barriers to connecting different business applications both within and across organisations are being lowered. This enables businesses to substantially reduce costs, create new revenue opportunities, and provide greater convenience, choice, and control for its users.

This solution provides:

• Single Sign-On.
• Strong Authentication Management.
• Advanced security management capabilities and enterprise-class site administration.
• Reduced IT operational costs and enabling greater IT control and security.
• Centralised Policy-Based Authorisation and Audit allowing controlled access to Web applications and portals.
• Identity Federation.
• Organisation Manageability.
• Secure delivery of essential information and applications to employees, partners, suppliers and customers.
• Scalability with growing business needs.

Oracle Identity Federation is a self-contained federation solution that combines the ease of use and portability of a stand-alone application.

This solution provides:

• All the components required to integrate with existing identity and access management systems to authenticate users, build and send assertions, manage domains and manage certificates.
• A cheaper, simpler, and more secure business process integration.
• A flexible multi-protocol federation server deployable with existing identity and access management systems.
• Shared identities across different business units, partners, vendors and customers using standards-based technologies.
• A mechanism to securely link accounts and identities across security boundaries without a central user repository or endless synchronisations of data stores.
• Support of mission critical applications through load balancing and failover support.
• The ability for organisations to manage their own resources.
• Offloading of actual authentication of users without having to synchronise users across security domains out of band.
• Multi-standard support, implementation of the broadest set of federation standards.
• Interoperability with 3rd party standards-compliant products.
• Heterogeneous architecture integrating with common identity repositories and identity and access management systems.
• Increased security and regulatory compliance.
• Reduces user management costs through the provision of a smooth user experience while reducing help desk calls and user administration costs.
• Easy installation.